Gary Taubes on Salt: Shake off Your Worries!

This one is hard to find sometimes. Gary Taubes's piece on salt was a winner of the 1999 Science in Society Journalism Awards.

The (Political) Science of Salt
https://www.nasw.org/sites/default/files/Taubes%20part%201_%20The%20salt%20controversy.pdf

It seems that salt, for some reason, is commonly feared even by cholesterol skeptics who embrace a high-fat, low-carb diet, who know well how misleading and misled the common nutritional talking points are. Dunno why. The links between high sodium and blood pressure problems are even weaker than those between high cholesterol and heart problems. If such a thing is possible.

Read this. It's the article that, I believe, sent Gary Taubes down the rabbit hole. And I'm so glad it did.

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Gary Taubes on Dr. Oz's TV show

The Man Who Thinks Everything Dr. Oz Says is Wrong -- that's the hyperbolic title of the TV episode from February, 2011. At time of this writing, it's been removed from YouTube. Here's a link to a portion of it from the Dr. Oz TV show website.

The Man Who Thinks Every Dr. Oz Says is Wrong, Part I

Gary Taubes is the award-winning science journalist whose works on nutrition and diet include the NY Times article Big Fat Lies and the books Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat.

Gary Taubes on Dr. Oz's radio show

Gary Taubes appeared on the radio show of Dr. Mehmet Oz on Feb. 24, 2011. The news peg was Gary's new book, Why We Get Fat -- which I got for my birthday and am reading happily.

Jimmy Moore, of the Livin' La Vida Low-Carb blog, podcast and video podcasts, has posted the Taubes interview in two parts on YouTube. Here are the links.

 

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